Roaring River (Crabtree Creek tributary)

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| subdivision_name4 = Linn

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| source1 = Cascade Range foothills

| source1_location = near Snow Peak

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| source1_elevation = {{convert|3104|ft|abbr=on}}Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.

| mouth = Crabtree Creek

| mouth_location = Larwood Wayside Park

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Roaring River is a tributary of Crabtree Creek in Linn County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It begins in the western foothills of the Cascade Range near Snow Peak. From there it flows generally west to meet Crabtree Creek at Larwood Wayside Park, north of Lacomb, about {{convert|16|mi|km}} upstream of where the creek meets the South Santiam River east of Albany. The only named tributary of Roaring River is Milky Fork, which enters from the left near Roaring River Park.{{cite web|title=United States Topographic Map|publisher=United States Geological Survey|via=ACME Mapper|url=http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=44.675278,-122.958889&z=12&t=T&marker0=44.675278,-122.958889|accessdate=December 1, 2015}} The map includes mile markers along Crabtree Creek.

Recreation

Larwood Wayside Park lies at the confluence of Roaring River with Crabtree Creek. Covering {{convert|6|acre|ha}}, it has picnic tables, river views, a footbridge, a waterwheel that formerly powered a mill at the site, as well as places to fish and swim. Ripley's Believe It or Not once listed the confluence as the only one in the world where a stream named "river" emptied into a stream named "creek".{{cite news|last=Urness|first=Zach|title=Small Creek Has Odd Claim to Fame in Ripley's Believe It or Not|newspaper=Statesman-Journal|location=Salem, Oregon|url=http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20121202/OUTDOORS/105170009/Small-park-has-odd-claim-fame-Ripley-s-Believe-Not-|publisher=Gannett|date=September 1, 2012|accessdate=December 6, 2015}}

Further upstream, Roaring River County Park is a {{convert|28|acre|ha|adj=on}} park along Fish Hatchery Drive east of Crabtree. Amenities include group picnic shelters, hiking trails, and a fishing pond.{{cite web|title=Roaring River County Park|url=http://www.linnparks.com/pages/parks/roaringriver.html|publisher=Linn County Parks & Recreation|accessdate=December 7, 2015}} Fishing for wild cutthroat trout in the creek is permitted on a catch-and-release basis.{{cite book|last=Sheehan|first=Madelynne Diness|title=Fishing in Oregon: The Complete Oregon Fishing Guide|edition=10th|publisher=Flying Pencil Publications|location=Scappoose, Oregon|page=164|isbn=0-916473-15-5}} Fishing in the park pond is recommended "for youngsters only."

Roaring River Fish Hatchery, established in 1924, raises rainbow trout and summer and winter steelhead (an anadromous form of rainbow trout). Open to the public, the hatchery has interpretive signs near the hatchery ponds.{{cite web|title=Roaring River Hatchery|url=http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/visitors/roaring_river_hatchery.asp|publisher=Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife|accessdate=December 7, 2015}}

See also

References

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Category:Rivers of Oregon

Category:Rivers of Linn County, Oregon

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